G11B 33/148
Reducing friction, adhesion, drag
Official title: {Reducing friction, adhesion, drag}
G11B33/148 (Reducing friction, adhesion, drag) appears on 290 US grants and 224 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G11B- Granted patents
- 290
- Published applications
- 224
- Assignees
- 71
- Inventors
- 611
- Latest grant
- 18 Aug 2026
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| 2025 | 1 | 4 |
| 2026 | 4 | 4 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
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- Magnetic disc device12 Mar 2026US 2026/0073950 A1Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
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Most cited
By later US patents
- Method of manufacturing a hermetically sealed disk drive131US 5,454,157 AMaxtor Corporation · 1995
- Rack for memory storage devices119US 6,565,163 B2Inclose Design, Inc. · 2003
- Docking adapter for memory storage devices108US 6,193,339 B1Inclose Design, Inc. · 2001
- Disk drive with airflow channeling enclosure106US 7,353,524 B1Western Digital Technologies, Inc. · 2008
- Liquid-bearing data recording disk file with transducer carrier having rear ski pad at the head-disk interface71US 5,267,104 AInternational Business Machines Corporation · 1993